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We use the 3.5 rules mostly but allow for the 5x10 base when it seems warranted (such as charging knights). A few of our more urban players initially balked at this so we took them out to the local stockyards and let them try to move some recalcitrant livestock. They quickly came to understand...

In OD&D we just described exactly what we were doing, sometimes demonstrating if necessary (... and then I jump out from behind the door and backstab him like this! Oops, sorry if that hurt ...) and left success to DM whim modified by loud arguments and enticing bribes.

It should be stainable to match, though that may take some experimentation. Depth isn't likely to be a problem. Any reputable paint store should be able to get you started. But if it has happened once its going to happen again. Consider getting a glass top cut for the table, or lining it with...

Last year I ran a 3.5 conversion of the original I6 that I had found here on enworld using D20 Past and D20 Modern. Mechanics wise the biggest problem was certain spots just needed magic and I had to respond with certain ad hoc solutions. Fortunately I had given the PCs some items and charms via...

For a single person under 35 that can be a good way to go if no catastrophic emergencies occur, especially as many dental and vision plans have annual and lifetime caps buried in the fine print that make them meaningless. The big thing is A) maintain the discipline in continuing to stash some...

Leave the AoO's, but make sure the bad guys provoke as often as the PCs do. Many DM's with experience unintentionaly let their NPCs run circles around the PCs. As an aside, one thing I've found slows up play for newbies is the diagonal movement rules. Just go with 5' per space and it makes...

Get yourself a credit card with a low interest and no annual fee for emergencies and just pay the $50 into a saving account. Its not perfect but it is a far sight better than most people have.

I initially noted the 25-50% category, but with a couple of hours to mull it over I realized that the number is higher, much higher. Not because of intent but friendly fire from area of effect spells probably accounts for half or more of the deaths. Add to it the tactical errors of "I was...

As purely idle speculation, I've always wondered if there has been a conscious effort at WoTC to keep the two properties seperate in case one gets sold off and the other doesn't. But if their corporate beauracracy worked like most of corporate America we'd be seeing Gurps MtG first.

But two eyes for an eye leaves your opponent blind and you with only a -2 circumstance modifier.

Basements are routinely plumbed, what matters is the depth of your sewer/septic line. If the main drain pipe goes straight down through the floor then you probably will be able to use a gravity drain system. If the main line leaves the house through a wall you will most likely need a lift or...

Any number more than a few dozen will do. If the players think there is too few just have the nearest NPC shuffle his feet, kick the dirt, stare at his shoes and mumble something about "them being really lean years, and then there was that pied piper chap and ....". If the PCs think there are...

A Heal check, DC equal to whatever the player rolls, reveals that eating one of the spiders will temporarily increase strength by 1 but penalize Dex and Wisdom by 2 each.

This came up IMC a few months ago and I could find no answer so my ruling was as above - no ill effect until the bag was opened, then a rift appears. To keep the ploy from being a cheap way to the Astral in the future I rolled some dice behind the screen and feigned checking a table in the 1st...

When I worked in one, albeit briefly, it was always called the "back", both in person and in the manual.

As a player I'd rather receive a map like that than any other. If you're worried about scale do a 2nd DM only map that is more basic and conventional, but do keep using tis style for the players' maps.

Wik's comment about rural vs urban strikes true. I have been offered jobs while justs sitting around in bars -always rural ones. In a little place across the border from Nogales (AZ) a couple of men tried to hire me to drive their laundry and dog (?) across the border for them. Here in Montana...

We always spent alot more time than that arguing over loot after each encounter, so no problem.

The DM PC or favored NPC has in my experience always either (or more often both) sidelined the other PCs or allowed for poor adventure design because the DM has his Deus ex Machina right there. In a well run game there is little reason for a perpetual NPC that exists entirely out of the...

Mechanically I don't remember much - just enough to know that after a few sessions we kept the PC's and switched them over to a homebrewed system. Background wise its an homage to old gangster movies and Sam Spade crime novels. When we were fifteen this was a new arena to explore, but apart...